Editing Ridley Scott (section)

==Honours, awards and legacy==
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Ridley Scott}}
[[File:Ridley Scott at the RCA July 2015.jpg|thumb|upright|Sir Ridley Scott was made an Honorary Doctor at the [[Royal College of Art]] during a ceremony in July 2015.]]
Scott was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2003 New Year Honours]] "for services to the British film industry".<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=56797 |date=31 December 2002 |page=1 |supp=y}}</ref> He received his accolade from [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] at an investiture ceremony at [[Buckingham Palace]] on 8 July 2003.<ref name="knighted"/> Scott admitted feeling "stunned and truly humbled" after the ceremony, saying, "As a boy growing up in [[South Shields]], I could never have imagined that I would receive such a special recognition. I am truly humbled to receive this treasured award and believe it also further recognises the excellence of the British film industry."<ref>{{cite news |title=Queen knights Gladiator director |work=BBC News |date=8 July 2003 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3054254.stm |access-date=7 August 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808002249/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3054254.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In the [[2024 New Year Honours]], he was appointed a [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]] (GBE) by [[Charles III|King Charles III]] also "for services to the UK film industry".<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=64269 |date=30 December 2023 |supp=y |page=N9}}</ref>

Scott has been nominated for three [[Academy Award for Directing|Academy Awards for Directing]]—''Thelma & Louise'', ''Gladiator'' and ''Black Hawk Down''—as well as three [[British Academy Film Awards]] for Best Director, four [[Golden Globe Awards]] for Best Director, and two [[Primetime Emmy Awards]]. In 1995, Ridley and his brother [[Tony Scott|Tony]] received the [[BAFTA Award|BAFTA]] for [[BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award|Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema]].<ref name="Outstanding contribution"/> In 2018 he received the highest accolade from BAFTA, the [[BAFTA Fellowship]], for lifetime achievement.<ref name="BAFTA Felowship"/><ref name="Outstanding contribution"/>

Scott was inducted into the [[Museum of Pop Culture#Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame|Science Fiction Hall of Fame]] in 2007.<ref name=hof2007>{{cite web |url=http://www.empsfm.org/press/index.asparticleID=892 |title=Science Fiction Hall of Fame to Induct Ed Emshwiller, Gene Roddenberry, Ridley Scott and Gene Wolfe |access-date=26 April 2015 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. Press release March/April/May 2007. Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (''empsfm.org''). Archived 14 October 2007. Retrieved 19 March 2013</ref> In 2017 the German newspaper ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|FAZ]]'' compared Scott's influence on the science fiction film genre to Sir [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s on [[Thriller film|thrillers]] and [[John Ford]]'s on [[Western (genre)|Westerns]].<ref>{{cite news|title=RIDLEY SCOTT ZUM ACHTZIGSTEN :Der selbstleuchtende Sehnerv|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/ridley-scott-zum-achtzigsten-des-science-fiction-regisseurs-15316487.html|publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine - FAZ.net|date=30 November 2017|access-date=3 June 2020|archive-date=12 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812142143/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/ridley-scott-zum-achtzigsten-des-science-fiction-regisseurs-15316487.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011, he received a [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame|star]] on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10348091.stm "Hollywood stars for Simon Fuller and Sir Ridley Scott"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728112018/https://www.bbc.com/news/10348091 |date=28 July 2020 }}. ''[[BBC News]]''. Retrieved 20 June 2010.</ref>

Scott has received three [[Hugo Award]]s in the category of [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation|Best Dramatic Presentation]] for ''Alien'', ''Blade Runner'' and ''The Martian''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1980-hugo-awards/ |title=1980 Hugo Awards |date=26 July 2007 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |access-date=2022-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164644/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1980-hugo-awards/ |archive-date=2011-05-07 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/ |title=2016 Hugo Awards |date=29 December 2015 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |access-date=14 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816091759/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/ |archive-date=2017-08-16 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, Scott was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]] to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork, the [[Beatles]]' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album cover, to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires to mark his 80th birthday.<ref>{{cite news|title=New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited|work=The Guardian|date=5 October 2016|access-date=5 November 2016|archive-date=5 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105095109/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited|url-status=live}}</ref> On 3 July 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the [[Royal College of Art]] in a ceremony at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London at which he described how he still keeps on his office wall his school report placing him 31st out of 31 in his class, and how his teacher encouraged him to pursue what became his passion at art school.<ref name="RCA">{{cite web|title=RCA Convocation 2015|url=http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/convocation2015/|publisher=RCA [view from 13:55 and 31:45]|access-date=13 July 2015|archive-date=13 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713180321/http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/convocation2015/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary Doctors |url=http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/our-history/college-honours/honorary-doctors/ |publisher=RCA |access-date=13 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315030921/http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/our-history/college-honours/honorary-doctors/ |archive-date=15 March 2015}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Awards and nominations received by Scott's films
|-
! rowspan="2" | Year
! rowspan="2" | Title
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| Academy Awards
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| BAFTA Awards
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| Golden Globe Awards
|-
! Nominations
! Wins
! Nominations
! Wins
! Nominations
! Wins
|-
|1977
|''[[The Duellists]]''
|
|
|align=center|2
|
|
|
|-
|1979
|''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''
|align=center|2
|align=center|1
|align=center|7
|align=center|2
|align=center|1
|
|-
|1982
|''[[Blade Runner]]''
|align=center|2
|
|align=center|8
|align=center|3
|align=center|1
|
|-
|1985
|''[[Legend (1985 film)|Legend]]''
|align=center|1
|
|align=center|3
|
|
|
|-
|1989
|''[[Black Rain (1989 American film)|Black Rain]]''
|align=center|2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|1991
|''[[Thelma & Louise]]''
|align=center|6
|align=center|1
|align=center|8
|
|align=center|4
|align=center|1
|-
|1992
|''[[1492: Conquest of Paradise]]''
|
|
|
|
|align=center|1
|
|-
|2000
|''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]''
|align=center|12
|align=center|5
|align=center|14
|align=center|4
|align=center|5
|align=center|2
|-
|2001
|''[[Black Hawk Down (film)|Black Hawk Down]]''
|align=center|4
|align=center|2
|align=center|3
|
|
|
|-
|2007
|''[[American Gangster (film)|American Gangster]]''
|align=center|2
|
|align=center|5
|
|align=center|3
|
|-
|2012
|''[[Prometheus (2012 film)|Prometheus]]''
|align=center|1
|
|align=center|1
|
|
|
|-
|2015
|''[[The Martian (film)|The Martian]]''
|align=center|7
|
|align=center|6
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|2
|-
|2017
|''[[All the Money in the World]]''
|align=center|1
|
|align=center|1
|
|align=center|3
|
|-
|2021
|''[[House of Gucci]]''
|align=center|1
|
|align=center|3
|
|align=center|1
|
|-
|2023
|''[[Napoleon (2023 film)|Napoleon]]''
|align=center|3
|
|align=center|4
|
|
|-
|2024
|''[[Gladiator II]]''
|align=center|1
|
|align=center|3
|
|align=center|2
|
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!align=center|45
!align=center|9
!align=center|68
!align=center|9
!align=center|25
!align=center|5
|}

'''Directed Academy Award performances'''<br />
Under Scott's direction, these actors have received [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations (and wins) for their performances in their respective roles.
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Year
! Performer
! Film
! Result
|-
! colspan="4" | [[Academy Award for Best Actor]]
|-
| [[73rd Academy Awards|2000]]
| [[Russell Crowe]]
| ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[88th Academy Awards|2015]]
| [[Matt Damon]]
| ''[[The Martian (film)|The Martian]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
! colspan="4" | [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]
|-
|rowspan=2| [[64th Academy Awards|1991]]
| [[Geena Davis]]
|rowspan=2| ''[[Thelma and Louise]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Susan Sarandon]]
| {{nom}}
|-
! colspan="4" | [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]]
|-
| [[73rd Academy Awards|2000]]
| [[Joaquin Phoenix]]
| ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[90th Academy Awards|2017]]
| [[Christopher Plummer]]
| ''[[All the Money in the World]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
! colspan="4" | [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]
|-
| [[80th Academy Awards|2007]]
| [[Ruby Dee]]
| ''[[American Gangster (film)|American Gangster]]''
| {{nom}}
|}

Belgian bike manufacturing company [[Ridley Bikes]] is named in honour of Scott.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Ridley|url=https://www.ridley-bikes.com/en_GB/about|access-date=2025-03-10|website=Ridley|language=en-GB}}</ref>